Hello people,
To cut a story short due to the reeeeediculous prices of GPUs at the moment because of this bleeding mining craze I opted to get a second card, second hand from a selling with 100% feedback on the Bay.
Card in question is an MSI HD 7870, which when paired with my current one in Crossfire would be decent enough until the prices on cards go back to normal, or close to normal.
Where, to me, this gets weird is upon inserting card into the next PCIe slot, plugging into PSU (Coolermaster Modular) and connecting Crossfire bridge. I boot system into Windows 10, all good so far, both cards cooling fans spinning and so on, I go into Catalyst, or whatever its called nowadays to enable Crossfire, the option isn't there. So, I go to control panel, devices and in display adapters it has the following:
HD 7870 (primary card, my card)
Generic VGA Adapter (second card)
Every time I attempt to find or update drivers for second card, to attempt to get it to detect the system black screens and doesn't recover.
The question I have, is the second 7870 dead, or would it not be detected as 'Generic VGA Adapter' in device manager (it doesn't work alone either, when original card is taken out and the new one put into the same slot) or is this some kind of odd driver related issue, or card BIOS issue?
Thanks for any advice in advance.
To cut a story short due to the reeeeediculous prices of GPUs at the moment because of this bleeding mining craze I opted to get a second card, second hand from a selling with 100% feedback on the Bay.
Card in question is an MSI HD 7870, which when paired with my current one in Crossfire would be decent enough until the prices on cards go back to normal, or close to normal.
Where, to me, this gets weird is upon inserting card into the next PCIe slot, plugging into PSU (Coolermaster Modular) and connecting Crossfire bridge. I boot system into Windows 10, all good so far, both cards cooling fans spinning and so on, I go into Catalyst, or whatever its called nowadays to enable Crossfire, the option isn't there. So, I go to control panel, devices and in display adapters it has the following:
HD 7870 (primary card, my card)
Generic VGA Adapter (second card)
Every time I attempt to find or update drivers for second card, to attempt to get it to detect the system black screens and doesn't recover.
The question I have, is the second 7870 dead, or would it not be detected as 'Generic VGA Adapter' in device manager (it doesn't work alone either, when original card is taken out and the new one put into the same slot) or is this some kind of odd driver related issue, or card BIOS issue?
Thanks for any advice in advance.
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